Daisy/niso authoring

Willem van der Walt wvdwalt at csir.co.za
Mon Sep 10 03:45:16 EDT 2007


Dtbmaker by Greg Kerny can do that.  You might need to put it through sed 
to change your text queues into the format required by dtbmaker, but I 
have done that and it is a lot easyer than trying to do it all from 
scratch.
See: http://w3.wmcnet.org/
for dtbmaker.


On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Shane wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I have an etext book or two which is plaintext but with
> fairly good markup.  Sample:
> 
> Print page 1
> 
> Chapter 1: Chapter title
> 
> text
> 
> Print page 2
> 
> And so on.  My daisy player of course has little navigation
> capability here as it knows nothing about the text queues. 
> Just wondering if there is a way to author a niso or daisy
> ebook under Linux.  Afaik the specs are available so I
> could script this easily enough but was wondering if
> someone has already gone down this path.
> 
> Best,
> Shane
> 
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